The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
TIMES VS.. HERALD,
Or Herald VS.. Times, as You Like It..

A few months ago the Evening
Times published an interview with
Col. --, a newsdealer, on the
subject of newspaper sales, in
which the prime purpose seemed
to be to publish the fact that sales
of the Times were greater than
--'s sales Of the HERALD, and
to leave the impression thereby
that there was corresponding diff
ference in the total sales of Times
as compared with total sales of the
HERALD. The HERALD took no
notice of this unfair inuendo; but
the Times repeated it on Saturday
evening, and the HERALD has but
to say now that if it is the desire
of the Times to make compari-
sons, the HERALD does not object
and will take a part. One news
dealers sales, however, should
not be considered a fair average.
Mr.. Jas. Fulton, who for several
months past sold the Times on
the streets, has lately sold both
Times and HERALD, and more re-
Gently sold the HERALD alone.
The Times has its newsboys and
friends; so has the HERALD. Col.
- has two boys who sell the
Times on the streets. while the
HERALD is sold by him only on
his counter. Col. - is en-
titled to his preference of the two
evening papers; and the HERALD
would not question his right to
partiality for the one, or his right
to his opinion as to which is the
better selling paper. He is near the
Times Office and gets a supply
from the first prints, while he is
near the last end of the route Of
the HERALD carrier which serves
him, and the HERALD finds it to
to its interest to serve others first.
The Times has been in Dallas
ten years, and is about the same
to-day that it was two, three or
five years ago,
The Herald has been here one
year and there has been some i'm
provement, either in size, dress,
shape or news service, almost
every month of its existence.
The Times may have advantage
of prestige among the advertisers
because of its age and the persona
popularity Of its founder and ex
editor.
The Herald has no persona.
claim on the people of Dallas and
is young; but because of its energy
and enterprise in giving the best
local paper (every evening journal
is necessarily a purely local jour
naD the city has ever had, is
GROWING. Depending for success
solely on its merit, it cannot afford
to sit down and take it easy by
giving only two or three columns a
day, and two large sheets ofspoilsd
paper for Saturday night.
The HERALD has always desired
to treat the Times courteously, and
has tried to do so. But these two
publications of that paper above
referred to, appear to us as dis
position to injure the HERALD
among those advertisers who might
read its report of the sales of one
newsdealer, as indicating the cir
culation of the two papers. Why,
we can name several who sell HER
AIDS and no Times; but would not
presume to palm off on the public
a statement to that effect as evil
dence that the.HERALD's circula-
ton exceeded the TINES.
Truth is, there could be no strong
er evidence of the growth of the
Herald than these squibs Of the
Times. The Times might prose-
cute its investigation and COM
parsons on to a fair conclu-
sion that, the Herald at one year
old has about the same if not more
bona fde subscribers in the city of
Dallas and surrounding towns than
the Times, and Ut two years old
will more than double the circula-
tion of that paper. Time will
tell.